The Clintons hold the low road

The Low Road to Victory - New York Times

The Pennsylvania campaign, which produced yet another inconclusive result on Tuesday, was even meaner, more vacuous, more desperate, and more filled with pandering than the mean, vacuous, desperate, pander-filled contests that preceded it.

Voters are getting tired of it; it is demeaning the political process; and it does not work. It is past time for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to acknowledge that the negativity, for which she is mostly responsible, does nothing but harm to her, her opponent, her party and the 2008 election.

The editorial goes on to compare her to Karl Rove, the equivalent of “going nuclear” in Democratic Party politics.

The Clintons have disappointed me this election. I was never a big fan of them, but neither have I ever been (until recently) a rabid Clinton-hater. The point being, since my expectations of the Clintons, going in, were quite modest, it’s saying something that they even “disappointed” my minimal expectations. If their antics lead to McCain defeating Obama in November, I’m going to even more pissed.

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Comments

  1. CDR Salamander wrote:

    Stephen,
    I though of you when I posted this.

    Snicker.

  2. a former european wrote:

    Obama is infinitely better than that Gestapo Kommandant, Hillary Clinton. She is evil and ruthless in a cold-hearted way that I have not seen portrayed since the Angela Lansbury character in The Manchurian Candidate (the original one). The boozing, womanizing politician to whom she was married in order to ride to political power was also an eerie similarity to Bill Clinton.

    Sadly, based on his recent comments, Rev. Wright seems to be doing his best to derail Obama’s candidacy. I will vote Obama over McCain, but McCain if he runs against Hillary. With friends like Wright, Obama doesn’t need too many enemies.